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§1 Plant
Cleome serrulata Pursh
vernacular Rocky Mountain beeplant — species · Capparaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Capparaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Cleome
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 370 counties across 27 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 52 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 70 min.
- Precipitation
- 13–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–7.6
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Mature height
- 3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Red
- Fruit colour
- Black
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 64,000
- Propagation
- seed, bare root
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Contracting Only
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 370 counties across 27 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 7 N ▾
California view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 41 N ▾
- Alamosa 08003
- Baca 08009
- Boulder 08013
- Chaffee 08015
- Cheyenne 08017
- Conejos 08021
- Costilla 08023
- Custer 08027
- Delta 08029
- Denver 08031
- Douglas 08035
- El Paso 08041
- Fremont 08043
- Garfield 08045
- Gunnison 08051
- Huerfano 08055
- Jackson 08057
- Kiowa 08061
- Kit Carson 08063
- La Plata 08067
- Lake 08065
- Larimer 08069
- Las Animas 08071
- Lincoln 08073
- Logan 08075
- Mesa 08077
- Mineral 08079
- Moffat 08081
- Montezuma 08083
- Montrose 08085
- Morgan 08087
- Otero 08089
- Park 08093
- Pueblo 08101
- Rio Blanco 08103
- Saguache 08109
- San Juan 08111
- Sedgwick 08115
- Teller 08119
- Weld 08123
- Yuma 08125
Idaho view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 48 N ▾
- Barber 20007
- Barton 20009
- Cheyenne 20023
- Clark 20025
- Cloud 20029
- Comanche 20033
- Decatur 20039
- Doniphan 20043
- Douglas 20045
- Edwards 20047
- Ellis 20051
- Ellsworth 20053
- Finney 20055
- Ford 20057
- Gove 20063
- Graham 20065
- Grant 20067
- Gray 20069
- Hamilton 20075
- Harper 20077
- Hodgeman 20083
- Jackson 20085
- Kearny 20093
- Kiowa 20097
- Logan 20109
- Meade 20119
- Morton 20129
- Ness 20135
- Osborne 20141
- Phillips 20147
- Pottawatomie 20149
- Rawlins 20153
- Reno 20155
- Republic 20157
- Rice 20159
- Riley 20161
- Rooks 20163
- Russell 20167
- Scott 20171
- Seward 20175
- Shawnee 20177
- Sheridan 20179
- Stafford 20185
- Stanton 20187
- Trego 20195
- Wallace 20199
- Wichita 20203
- Wyandotte 20209
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 34 N ▾
- Beaverhead 30001
- Big Horn 30003
- Broadwater 30007
- Carter 30011
- Cascade 30013
- Custer 30017
- Daniels 30019
- Deer Lodge 30023
- Fergus 30027
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Garfield 30033
- Golden Valley 30037
- Granite 30039
- Hill 30041
- Jefferson 30043
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Madison 30057
- McCone 30055
- Meagher 30059
- Missoula 30063
- Musselshell 30065
- Park 30067
- Petroleum 30069
- Phillips 30071
- Powder River 30075
- Powell 30077
- Roosevelt 30085
- Rosebud 30087
- Sheridan 30091
- Silver Bow 30093
- Teton 30099
- Toole 30101
- Yellowstone 30111
Nebraska view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Arthur 31005
- Banner 31007
- Box Butte 31013
- Brown 31017
- Buffalo 31019
- Cass 31025
- Cherry 31031
- Cheyenne 31033
- Clay 31035
- Custer 31041
- Dawes 31045
- Dodge 31053
- Douglas 31055
- Dundy 31057
- Garden 31069
- Grant 31075
- Greeley 31077
- Hall 31079
- Holt 31089
- Hooker 31091
- Kearney 31099
- Keith 31101
- Keya Paha 31103
- Kimball 31105
- Lancaster 31109
- Morrill 31123
- Red Willow 31145
- Rock 31149
- Scotts Bluff 31157
- Sheridan 31161
- Sioux 31165
- Thomas 31171
Nevada view state ↗ 11 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 16 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Billings 38007
- Bowman 38011
- Burke 38013
- Burleigh 38015
- Cass 38017
- Cavalier 38019
- Dickey 38021
- Divide 38023
- Emmons 38029
- Foster 38031
- Golden Valley 38033
- Grant 38037
- Hettinger 38041
- Kidder 38043
- Logan 38047
- McHenry 38049
- McIntosh 38051
- McKenzie 38053
- McLean 38055
- Morton 38059
- Mountrail 38061
- Pembina 38067
- Pierce 38069
- Ransom 38073
- Richland 38077
- Sargent 38081
- Sioux 38085
- Slope 38087
- Stark 38089
- Stutsman 38093
- Ward 38101
- Williams 38105
Ohio view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 5 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 29 N ▾
- Beaver 49001
- Box Elder 49003
- Cache 49005
- Carbon 49007
- Daggett 49009
- Davis 49011
- Duchesne 49013
- Emery 49015
- Garfield 49017
- Grand 49019
- Iron 49021
- Juab 49023
- Kane 49025
- Millard 49027
- Morgan 49029
- Piute 49031
- Rich 49033
- Salt Lake 49035
- San Juan 49037
- Sanpete 49039
- Sevier 49041
- Summit 49043
- Tooele 49045
- Uintah 49047
- Utah 49049
- Wasatch 49051
- Washington 49053
- Wayne 49055
- Weber 49057
Washington view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Wyoming view state ↗ 20 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CLSE ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/8145885 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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